Dungeons and Dragons Online - Fair Codexia Dead - DDO NEWs Thread!

[infidel]

If you just wanted to know how it plays out, the Ravenloft quests are based directly on the 5E Ravenloft modules

I was wondering about how much they've lifted directly out of that and how the transition went so I'll probably skim through the module to check it out.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If you just wanted to know how it plays out, the Ravenloft quests are based directly on the 5E Ravenloft modules

I was wondering about how much they've lifted directly out of that and how the transition went so I'll probably skim through the module to check it out.

I know Death House is 1:1 identical, not sure about the rest.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

damn these are some heavy boots

 

[PapaPetro]

damn these are some heavy boots

Must be new since I last checked. How fast is the sinking animation? Could be semi-useful for speed TRing on some underwater quests as a clickly swap.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

I got beaten by beholders in a drinking contest.

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DDO is a pretty good D&D game.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

out of hundreds of quests, this is the only quest I think I actually hated so far
https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Coalescence_Chamber

"Very Long" doesn't do it justice, should be "Really, Really, Extremely and Annoyingly Confusingly Long"
Ignore the map, the entire thing is vertical. The map can't help you at all.

 

[infidel]

damn these are some heavy boots

What the hell is "increased unconsciousness range"... Lol, I had no idea about that mechanic:
https://ddowiki.com/page/Hit_point#Extending_unconsciousness_range

I've a feeling that this is pretty much unused. "If you are dying, you lose 1 hp every ten seconds from blood loss until either you die or you stabilize". So, by default, it's like up to 10-100 seconds of waiting until someone applies Heal skill with a healer kit ready.

Ignore the map, the entire thing is vertical. The map can't help you at all.

They have a lot of verticality in some dungeons, Castle Ravenloft, for example. I think they'd really benefit from the implementation of isometric maps like this:

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[rusty_shackleford]

I've a feeling that this is pretty much unused. "If you are dying, you lose 1 hp every ten seconds from blood loss until either you die or you stabilize". So, by default, it's like up to 10-100 seconds of waiting until someone applies Heal skill with a healer kit ready.

It means you're just down, not out. While you can be stabilized with a healer's kit, you can also just be healed regularly and picked back up without needing to be raised.
When you go down monsters tend to go for anyone nearby who isn't unconscious so there's a good chance you won't immediately die.

 

[Reinhardt]

"If you are dying, you lose 1 hp every ten seconds from blood loss until either you die or you stabilize". So, by default, it's like up to 10-100 seconds of waiting until someone applies Heal skill with a healer kit ready.

Paladin can get an enchantment where if you drop below 0 but not dead you instantly healed for 250 hp at the cost of your turn undead. I guess others have something like that too.

 

[Helton]

They have a lot of verticality in some dungeons, Castle Ravenloft, for example. I think they'd really benefit from the implementation of isometric maps like this:

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Castle Ravenloft has the "vertical" levels actually on the same floor with teleports between them specifically to avoid the minimap issue. The new content is really fantastic compared to old content. So many little quality of life things like this. When I try to play old content I'm constantly frowning at little annoyances now that I'm spoiled by Ravenloft and Sharn. "Running with the Devils" is supposed to be fantastic xp/min, but it seems about on par with sharn quests and is super annoying because every other enemy is a whirlwind which yanks you around the screen. Really annoying in a game with any latency, especially for a melee with tactics attacks.

Or any quest with a "protect NPC" failure condition at the end so that you can waste 30 minutes and have nothing to show for it...

I'm having some trouble getting my last 1.5 heroic ranks lol because 2/3 quests I skip once I skim the wiki. Lord of Eyes chain seems pretty good so far. Acute Delirium was a lot of fun even if it wasn't particularly fast.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

don't forget to pick up the first two xpac quests for 99 points each before it goes away

 

[Reinhardt]

out of hundreds of quests, this is the only quest I think I actually hated so far
https://ddowiki.com/page/The_Coalescence_Chamber

I hated tomb of wizard king in the desert. Because i still have no idea what to do there. Was just running samey rooms(lots of samey rooms) with stairs and collapsing floors and then there is final boss and everything ended.

 

[PapaPetro]

meh, just field a team using multibox; 1 sorc and 5 clerics.
the clerics can use Divine Vitality to regenerate the sorc's nukes and can rez/heal/buff when needed; park them at the entrance to keep them safe; once you have DD it makes things easier.

leveled up a whole vanilla team to 20 and made a shit ton of plat back in the day.
who needs pubs when you got your own posse?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

When you go into the Inspired Quarter city zone

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and have trueseeing on, you can see the things controlling them

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[rusty_shackleford]

The madness quests in The Twelve(and related quests) are some of the best in the game BTW.
Anything involving the Sleeping Spell Inn.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

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woops posted in the wrong thread

 

[Zurat-Yarkuch]

Wait, the failure is checkmarked. Does that mean you did let it fall? Or is it mislabeled and they mean success if you do not let it fall?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Wait, the failure is checkmarked. Does that mean you did let it fall? Or is it mislabeled and they mean success if you do not let it fall?

When it fails it gets an X.
I got 1,009 life energy but it didn't give me the 1,000 energy optional.

 

[Lhynn]

Level 11 sorcerer, shit still burns. Really feeling like doing all my racial lives on sorcerers.

 

[Reinhardt]

Was waiting for today sale hoping for epic destinies. Well, no luck. Buying it anyway then.

 

[Lhynn]

Well, i would keep spamming heroics until it did. But yeah, epic destinies are a big one, i got them when i bought the old expansions during black friday.

 

[PapaPetro]

Level 11 sorcerer, shit still burns. Really feeling like doing all my racial lives on sorcerers.

Why not warlock the racial levels?
Did they nerf the class finally?

 

[Reinhardt]

Yeah, epic destinies is serious business. Went from ~500 to ~750 hp just from grabbing my first lvl 0 destiny.

 

[PapaPetro]

Wait till you start adding reaper HP...

 

[Lhynn]

Did they nerf the class finally?

I dont think they nerfed it, its just that sorcs kill better. But i have heard it isnt in the best shape.